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View SchemaBulk viscosity due to kaons in color-flavor-locked quark matter
| Authors | Mark G. Alford, Matt Braby, Sanjay Reddy, Thomas Schaefer |
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| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/0701067 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0701067 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevC.75.055209 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev.C75:055209,2007 |
Abstract
We calculate the bulk viscosity of color-superconducting quark matter in the color-flavor-locked (CFL) phase. We assume that the lightest bosons are the superfluid mode H and the kaons K0 and K+, and that there is no kaon condensate. We calculate the rate of strangeness-equilibrating processes that convert kaons into superfluid modes, and the resultant bulk viscosity. We find that for oscillations with a timescale of milliseconds, at temperatures T << 1 MeV, the CFL bulk viscosity is much less than that of unpaired quark matter, but at higher temperatures the bulk viscosity of CFL matter can become larger.
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"abstract": "We calculate the bulk viscosity of color-superconducting quark matter in the\ncolor-flavor-locked (CFL) phase. We assume that the lightest bosons are the\nsuperfluid mode H and the kaons K0 and K+, and that there is no kaon\ncondensate. We calculate the rate of strangeness-equilibrating processes that\nconvert kaons into superfluid modes, and the resultant bulk viscosity. We find\nthat for oscillations with a timescale of milliseconds, at temperatures T \u003c\u003c 1\nMeV, the CFL bulk viscosity is much less than that of unpaired quark matter,\nbut at higher temperatures the bulk viscosity of CFL matter can become larger.",
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"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevC.75.055209",
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"title": "Bulk viscosity due to kaons in color-flavor-locked quark matter",
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